I grew up in a very rural place in China, in a province called Guizhou where not even many Chinese people have been. It is buried in the mountains, and is one of the poorest provinces in China.
I was a curious kid, and a lonely kid because of the one-child policy, and I would look at aeroplanes flying over the mountains and wonder if I’d one day be able to catch one to see what was on the other side.
The way it turned out, I rode a plane for the first time when I flew to France to do a masters in management at HEC Paris. I was accepted by five universities, but HEC gave me a full scholarship. Even my undergraduate studies in China had been very difficult financially for my parents.